Don't Miss These Facts About Gold Fields

By Scott Lee • Thursday, January 11 09:46 • Permanent Link

Mid-cap Basic Materials company Gold Fields has moved 1.4% so far today on a volume of 582,965, compared to its average of 4,804,974.

Gold Fields trades -16.18% away from its average analyst target price of $14.96 per share. The 5 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $13.5 to $16.0, and on average have given Gold Fields a rating of hold.

Anyone interested in buying GFI should be aware of the facts below:

Gold Fields's current price is 34.0% above its Graham number of $9.36, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Gold Fields has moved 0.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 20.1%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 0.73, Gold Fields has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 17.2 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
GFI has a forward P/E ratio of 52.2 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $0.24 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 2.62 compared to its sector average of 2.07
Gold Fields Limited operates as a gold producer with reserves and resources in Chile, South Africa, Ghana, West Africa, Australia, and Peru.
Based in Sandton, the company has 6,162 full time employees and a market cap of $11.21 Billion. Gold Fields currently returns an annual dividend yield of 3.5%.

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